European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Pagan the stars and stripes monday May 29,1989 Dublin Ireland a prime minister Charles haughty has called a snap general election for june 15 in a bid to win his first outright parliamentary majority at the fifth attempt. His minority government elected 28 months ago by the Slimmest margin possible announced the election in what was seen As a attempt to capitalize on this Island Republic s economic revival. His fianna fail party which has governed Ireland for 44 of its 67 years As an Independent state will form the first single party majority government since 1977-81 if its 50 percent plus approval rating in recent opinion polls is reflected in the election. Aga sentence Cut Ancona. Italy a a court has decided to reduce by two years the 30-year sentence Given to much act Ali Aga. Who tried to assassinate Pope John Paul ii in 1981, the italian news Agency Agi reported. A state prosecutor had called for a reduction in Aga s sentence be cause of Good behaviour. Aga was awarded a reduction of 45 Days for every six months he had been in jail or 720 Days Agi said. He received a life sentence which in Italy is 30 years. Palestinian s death Jerusalem up a Mili tary court has acquitted four israeli soldiers of manslaughter in the beating death of a palestinian Pris Oner but convicted them of brutality in the incident. The court found the soldiers members of the Zivali brigade accused of beating to death a Resi Dent of the Zabalia refugee Camp had exceeded their orders on using Force and that the orders them selves were illegal Israel radio re ported. Suit settlement Detroit a one Side was Given a Chevrolet and the other received a pair of Hunting guns and an agreement was signed settling a name dispute Between general motors corp. And a famous italian weapons maker. Pm chairman Roger Smith and pier Giuseppe by Rolta chairman of Fabbricia d Armi Pietro Beret la exchanged the products during ceremony in Italy putting to rest a suit brought nearly a year ago. The company announced. Bar Cotta a 463-year-old gunman or sued pm in Federal court in new York last july Over pm s use of the name Bare la for a midsize Chevrolet introduced in 1987. The settlement called for a $500,000 donation by pm to the Beretta foundation for cancer re search and treatment in return for permission to use the name Beretta for the line of cars. Smith presented Beretta with a Chevrolet Beretta Gnu Coupe which carries a base Price of $15,610. In return Beretta gave Smith an avid Hunter a Rifle and a shot gun. The statement did t say How much the weapons were Worth. Yeltsin other avid reformers Vail in supreme soviet m a cow a communist Mav Erick Boris n. Yeltsin and other outspoken ref veers lost their bids saturday for seats on new standing legislature and one Suggs a they join forces to fight the communist arty. Yeltsin a a other reformers were elected in much to the 2,250-member Congress of people s deputies which in turn saturday to Host the smaller full time supreme i Riet and in doing so shut out Many candidates. Many party Chic and top bureaucrats also faced stiff Opp vision from fellow congressmen but were acc cd to the supreme soviet the revamp cd Law making body that replaces the Jibber stamp predecessor of the same a the deputies voted Froimy night from a ballot of 600 candidate Csc All Mem Bers of the Congress to the 542 Mcm bar supreme soviet. In the Baltic delegations another hotbed of Reform deputies Nib match Only As Many candidates As thy had seats and succeeded in electing a Nfn bar of Radical leaders to the supreme so it. Yeltsin won a majority of the vote of his fellow deputies but ran last out of 1 candidates vying for 11 supreme Sou scats designated for the russian federation. Deputy Yuri a. Osipyan chair Man of the commission that counted the ballots overnight said Yeltsin got i.185 votes in the Congress of people s deputies with 964 members of the National Congress voting against him. Yeltsin said he was saddened an upset by the results but vowed to continue his crusade indicating he might seek the vice presidency which also will be voted on by the Congress. I must fight to the end he told re porters. He added that was his responsibility to the millions of muscovites who sent him to the Congress. I must fulfil their will and their the anti establishment Yeltsin headed a list of vanquished Moscow based re formers and radicals including sociologist Tatyana Zaslavskaya economist r. Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin Fify with one of the clerical Delegate Gavril Popov advocate for the Khandji capped Llya Zaslawsky historic a Sergei Stankevich and biologist Al Cwi Pablo in a nationally talc Vised session held in the or Mclim Palace of congresses Many deputies applauded in Delight As Pyan announced in a droning voice radicals defeat. Kyj forc the balloting some deputies complained the Nolff fiting procedure had can rigged to twp party and gov it officials in Job War. Have form a Brezhnev Stalin Suprien soviet did progressive Histo Rian Yull Fana Rcv in dismay As elec Tion for the new 542-scat Izbi Lajic. Popov Otil of the Defeated Moscow reformists Dlf card the apparatus has and called on progressive do Putin from throughout the country Buffon Gllnn Independent deputies group to Imit communist party and . Tiff apparatus Farly wants to gel retaliation clearly wants to impose it sown Way at the Congress Popov charged. He said deputies of a demo cratic orientation sought at first to work with fellow parliamentarians but that from the beginning our work has me with disbelief and in consequence a group of deputies considers it necessary to withdraw from the Moscow delegation the economist announced. We Are going to form. An Independent deputies group and invite All deputies to join reformers unite it would be the first opposition faction in the Congress where for decades the Kremlin leadership has imposed its will unimpeded by opposition. The deputies elected some More Mains Tream figures who proclaim support for Gorbachev s program of acres troika or re structuring but who refrained at the con Gress from fiery rhetoric. They included agriculture Reform advocate Alexei Emily nov Izvestia editor Ivan Laptev soviet Academy of sciences vice president Yevgeny pc Likhon and Independent Histo Rian Roy Cdv Cdv. Disgruntled Cozens defy meeting ban Moscow a several Hundred soviets defied a ban on unauthorized meetings Friday and gathered in a Down town Square to criticize their new parliament hours after it Defeated reformers attempts to Sanction their gathering. Police used megaphones to urge crowd to disperse or go to an approx meeting place in a giant parking lot away from the City Center but Only a relive handful showed up at the officials approved meeting place. no immediate action to break do the gathering in Moscow s Pushkin a Marc a frequent gathering spot for poll Cal discussions and protests. The apparatus is still every Jiing said one Man who sent Ifird him Iclef Only As a taxi Driver As Helus cussed the f Day old Congress of people deputies. Everything is the same us algal you can compare the Congo ass to an old cake chimed in another Mav they Sprinkle some chocolate on the Tiv some democracy but at the Bottom it s a the Only Victory was that they san aged to have some discussion sail Alexandcr Khaytov in a typical come want about reformers at the Congress of it pie s deputies convened on thursday. An Anonymous leaflet being distr used in the Square said a few deputies truly elected by the people Are trying to defend what has been promised. But everything is being done according to a previously worked out scenario just As it Al ways was. What arc we the people doing at this moment which could become the turning Point in our history of slavery we the people Are doing what we be been doing since 1917. We re looking for food and now soap As Friday s meeting followed police action to break up a similar gathering called late thursday by the democratic Union a self styled opposition political party. Faa Aff Idns policy again older pilots 41 _n.,.-. T Anan incorrect million electronics army and air fore the Sale begins and runs through s iday s editions gave the Start of a $20 being held by the Exchange service. Ived mesday May 31,nday, junc4. Washington a the Federal aviation administration Csc Friday de Nied a petition from a Getup of older pilots to be allowed to after age 60, saying older pilots re More Likely to be involved in acid Cerf. The Agency announce however that it would fund a details study of Pilotage and Accident rate and indicated it might be willing to certify individual pilots Over 60 if a Way would be found to determine their ability Jas. What is needed fid what the petitioners have failed to show the Faa said is a Way to a Criminate Between those who contribute to the advers trend of increasing accidents involving older pilots and those who do not the Faa said it is willing to look at any scientific evidence that will help in setting criteria for selecting older pilots who have a Low Accident risk. The Issue has simmered since the 1950s when the Faa first ordered that airline pilots and co pilots must retire at 60. It attracted renewed interest after feb. 24 when 59-year-old United air lines Pilot David Cronin guided a Boeing 747 to a Safe Landing in Honolulu after a Section of its fuselage blew off sending nine passengers to their deaths. Cronin was hailed As a hero for his second to last commercial flight before lir cent. Pilots have for years been King the Faa Rule needlessly Dis Crimi Nas on the basis of latest denial came in a petition for exc nation from the retirement Rule filed by a soup of pilots in May 1986. The Faa reflect cd it 16 months later. The pilots then jct to court and the . Court of annals in Chicago required Thefan to take Iother look at the petition. The Faas Long contended that pilots past the Gawf 60 Are More Likely to suffer perform an degradation and that there is no Way town brately predict its Onset the Faa sail tit said there is Evi Dence that older pilots skills deteriorate and that they arc More Likely to be involved in accidents. 1
